I agree with @katemanne.bsky.social about a hard NO toward sexual strangulation (katemanne.substack.com/p/how-sex-po...), especially considering its potential for brain damage. I hope that Manne also tells the Cornell admins. to end the football program. It, too, causes demonstrable brain damage.

Three (at minimum) elections in Nashville this year: May 5th: for Circuit Court Judge Division III: Bethany Peery Glandorf for Criminal Court Judge Division III: Jim Todd for General Sessions Judge Division VI: Jodie Ann Bell for Circuit Court Clerk: Joseph P. Day for County Clerk: Freda Player

Stifling the news (when they are self-censoring enough already) is not a good look. No one claimed that walking outside the crosswalk is illegal, simply that, here, it is what happened. The news should report every relevant fact in every news story, of which this is one.

I think that I would rather ride with a driver who drives carefully & defensively rather than one who thinks that he is seeing everything perfectly at all times and drives perfectly, too. I'm sorry that Chris Bowe wants to score cheap points rather than work toward a solution.

Today is the day. Thanks to the day that I was born (6/25/59), I am, today, February 25th 2026, 66 years and eight months old, meaning that, today, I am two-thirds of the way to 100 years old. This probably deserves a small cake. I'm thinking of having written on top, in frosting, "2/3 · 100."

At 8:52, @themanaen.bsky.social begins a paragraph for the second time. He stops, says, "Okay, I'm reading the same fucking thing I wrote" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDD3...). Of course, I hope that he's reading what he wrote, but not what he just read. This all raises the question: How stoned is he?

So, C.M. Parker: Please tell us about your text conversations during the August 5th Council Meeting, the ones to which C.M. Ellis referred, so you had to lean over her desk and curse at her?

C.M. Welsch lives in a house quitclaimed to her husband from his mother back in '97. It's on 71% of an acre, zoned RS10. Welsch protected it from the massive re-zoning she attempted to impose onto her constituents earlier this year. So: double ouch.

Today, June 27th, is the 145th birthday of Helen Keller.

Today, June 26th, is the 80th birthday of the United Nations.

Today, June 25th, is Sonia Sotomayor's 71st birthday.

Today, June 23rd, is the 99th anniversary of the S.A.T.

Today, June 21st, is the 75th birthday of Anne Carson.

Without a last-minute reprieve, we Tennesseans will kill Oscar Smith tomorrow morning, around 10:00. There is a vigil outside Riverbend starting at 9:00. I hope that every Tennessean will come to the vigil to bear witness to the outrage of killing a helpless person.

Today, May 21st, is the 144th birthday of the American Red Cross.

Today is the 100th birthday of Malcolm X.

Today, May 13th, is Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday. Stevie Wonder, the Mozart of R&B.

Today, May 12th, is the 89th birthday of Frank Stella.

Today, May 7th, is the 185th birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Today, May 6th, is the 110th birthday of Orson Welles.

Today, May 5th, would have been Tammy Wynette's 83rd birthday.

Today, May 4th, is the 370th birthday of Bartolomeo Cristofori.

Today is Primomaggio in Italy and throughout Europe. It is also the 102nd birthday of Joseph Heller.

Today, April 30th, is the 222nd anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase.

Today, April 29th, is the 126th birthday of Duke Ellington.

Today, April 28th, is Harper Lee's 99th birthday.

Today, April 25th, is the 119th birthday of Justice William Brennan.

Today, April 24th, is the 225th anniversary of the Library of Congress.

Today, April 23rd, is William Shakespeare's 461st birthday.

Today, April 22nd, is the 155th birthday of Vladimir Lenin.

Today is almost over, but I did want to mention that it has been the 175th birthday of Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial. In other patriotic news, yesterday, April 19th, was the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington & Concord.

Today, April 18th, is the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride from Boston to Concord taken by William Dawes, Samuel Prescott, & Paul Revere. Let's follow their lead and those of the Minutemen and resist out current lawless, albeit impotent, federal government.

Today, April 15th, is the 270th birthday of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language.

Today, April 14th, is the 250th anniversary of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North America. It was founded by two Benjamins, Franklin and Rush

Today, April 12th, is the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine.

Although April 10th is almost over, I wanted to tip my hat to THE GREAT GATSBY (probably the most assigned book in high school English classes), which turns ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD on this date.

Today, February 14th, is the 105th anniversary of the League of Women's Voters.

Today, February 13th, is the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the lunch counter sit-in in Nashville: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashvil...

Today is Joan Mitchell's 100th birthday: sfmoma-media-dev.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www-media/20... and www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/joan-mitchell.

Today is the 178th birthday of Thomas Edison.

Today, February 7th, is the 140th birthday of Sinclair Lewis.

Today, January 29th, is the 165th birthday of Anton Chekhov.

Wordle 1,318 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Apparently, I should play only once every few months.

Today, January 22nd, is the 452nd birthday of John Donne.

No, the houses need not be any more expensive, unless the developer is more interested in $$ than in housing. Four driveways would not mean less green space than a parking lot with for twelve cars.

I wrote a letter to the Tennessean concerning a recent op-ed. by @andreawillwrite.bsky.social, but the Tennessean didn't print it. Here it is; I hope that it is both legible & intelligible: